The backing comes at a crucial time as Lindner’s Canadian counterpart, Chrystia Freeland, announced in June that all ties with the bank were to be frozen pending a government review over claims made by a former Canadian top executive at the bank, who reported widespread “communist dominance” within the institution since its foundation in 2016 — allegations that the AIIB denies.

You mean the investment fund that was literally founded by the Chinese government because China had less voting rights in the existing “Asian Development Bank” than the fucking United States of America? The one they have minority voting rights in?

The full depth of this reasoning is just “China bad”, that’s it. That’s the quality of our public officials. This country is a fucking joke.